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How do you determine if your drive is set as a slave drive or a master drive?
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Master/Slave designation is determined by jumpers on IDE drives. Most drives have adequate markings on them to identify these jumper positions. If not marked clearly, you will need the manufacturer's data to determine that designation.
If you are curious about a working system just power-up in set-up mode (usually by depressing (f1-or-f2) during boot-up sequence, your system-bios will display this information for you.
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What type of hard drive do you have to set a master and slave jumper for?
Some IDE drives have a master/slave jumper, but a significant number of IDE drives defaulted to a "cable select" setting where the drive would determine for itself whether it was the master or the slave by which of the two sockets on the cable it was plugged into.
When you install a SCSI drive should it be set to a master or to slave?
Master and slave does not apply to scsi drives
What do you use to configure a drive to be a master slave or a stand alone drive?
We generally use the jumpers to set the disk drives as master or slave.
When installing an IDE hard drive's configuration a master or slave is handled?
the hard drive should be set to master...
How you can make slave or master hard drive?
There are jumpers on the drive itself that can be configured to set it up as a master or a slave. Refer to your hard drive's documentation for the pins to use for these configurations.
If a single hard disk is attached on a primary IDE channel what should the jumper be set to?
master if the ide cable has a single drive connection. if the ide cable has the master and slave connection. then set the drive to master with slave.
What is the difference between master IDE and slave IDE?
Each IDE slot can handle two drives. One drive will be the master and the other will be the slave depending o the configuration. If the jumpers of one drive is configured to set the drive as MA (Master), the second must be configured to SL (Slave). Both drives may be configured as CS (Cable Select), if so, The positioning on the ribbon cable will determine whic one is the master and which is the slave
What should the primary jumper be set to On a primary IDE channel if a single hard disk is attached?
master if the ide cable has a single drive connection. if the ide cable has the master and slave connection. then set the drive to master with slave.
When installing a hard drive and a CD-ROM drive on the same IDE channel which do you configure as the master and which as a slave?
The Harddrive needs to be set as "master" and the CD ROM as Slave.
How can you set the jumpers on your hard drive?
first Hard drive is Master and additional will be set to slave.
If you are installing a second hard drive into a computer will it still work if you can't change the jumper to slave?
That would depend on certain variables, such as whether you were putting it on the same cable as the other drive. In IDE, you must have a Master drive on each channel. The second drive must be set to Slave. You were not clear in which drive you could not change the jumper. Assuming the drive in the computer is alone on the cable, it is set to Master, so your new drive must be either set to Slave and be placed on the same cable, or set as Master and placed on another cable.
Should ide be master or slave with sata master?
SATA and IDE are operated on different buses, with different controllers. A SATA drive is not considered a "master" or a "slave"; it has a channel all to itself. If the IDE drive is by itself on the controller, it should be set as Master.
